Car mechanical issues: engine replaced, now turbo has gone

[unstuck]

I would have fucked two of them if that was the case

See, I told you idiots buy holdens.

[mossy1200]

Dunedin City Ford rebuilt my V8 years ago and it lasted 500km.
Cam moved and pushed the cam chain against the cam cover putting ally through the rebuilt engine.

Took them to small claims and it turned out the work was done by their first year apprentice at full hourly rates.
They blamed the second failure on a worn oil pump and got away with it.

I remember when I took it there asking why there rate was higher than other shops.
"We are Ford and we know them inside out" was the answer I got.

[400sm]

.............. the bearings seized and caused the cambelt to disintegrate - ....

The low boost symptom sounds very much like a loose hose-clamp on a pipe, bleeding air. (been there)
Your turbo would have to not spin to get no pressure. Is it seized?
You would need to personally see the turbo and handle it to find out. (I think this is most important)
Knackered, smoky turbos still produce boost (been there too) and yours was not smoking, from what I read.

[unstuck]

Dunedin City Ford rebuilt my V8 years ago and it lasted 500km.
Cam moved and pushed the cam chain against the cam cover putting ally through the rebuilt engine.

Took them to small claims and it turned out the work was done by their first year apprentice at full hourly rates.
They blamed the second failure on a worn oil pump and got away with it.

I remember when I took it there asking why there rate was higher than other shops.
"We are Ford and we know them inside out" was the answer I got.

Don't see how it could move forward unless the holding plate was not fitted.

[mossy1200]

Don't see how it could move forward unless the holding plate was not fitted.

Cover was almost worn through. New cam was one of the parts installed.
Guess it not easy to win in a small claims court even when you have a signed report from the mechanic that stripped the engine after the second failure.

[sidecar bob]

Cover was almost worn through. New cam was one of the parts installed.
Guess it not easy to win in a small claims court even when you have a signed report from the mechanic that stripped the engine after the second failure.

Why cant cunts just fuckin own it when they get it wrong? instead of being a spineless weasel & having to get their incompetent arses dragged through small claims.

[5ive]

The low boost symptom sounds very much like a loose hose-clamp on a pipe, bleeding air. (been there)
Your turbo would have to not spin to get no pressure. Is it seized?
You would need to personally see the turbo and handle it to find out. (I think this is most important)
Knackered, smoky turbos still produce boost (been there too) and yours was not smoking, from what I read.

Well according to the person who took the turbo off, and put it on the new engine, they inspected it and it was fine.

Now they want another $1000 to put another turbo on, but they'll fix the replacement engine for free.

I can think of two reasons why they are being a little cagey.

[sidecar bob]

Well according to the person who took the turbo off, and put it on the new engine, they inspected it and it was fine.

Now they want another $1000 to put another turbo on, but they'll fix the replacement engine for free.

I can think of two reasons why they are being a little cagey.

Yeah, because the original "busted" engine needed nothing more than a cambelt kit & the turbo that shat its self is not even the one that was on your car when it was towed in? or am I missing something?

[Voltaire]

Why cant cunts just fuckin own it when they get it wrong? instead of being a spineless weasel & having to get their incompetent arses dragged through small claims.

There is also the issue of customers blaming you as " you worked on it last" even if its old. When I was a sparkie I walked away from old shitter switchboards and houses rather than drawn into a mess.

[swarfie]

There is also the issue of customers blaming you as " you worked on it last" even if its old. When I was a sparkie I walked away from old shitter switchboards and houses rather than drawn into a mess.

When I was a young fella (yeah I know....soooo long ago) I did loads of rewire jobs on old shitty houses in Auckland with my sparkie father in law. Couldn't believe some of the messes he ended up fixing. He seemed to specialise in them. Don't blame ya for walking away if they were anything like the turd piles we fixed
And the customer wonders why some jobs cost so much...

[sidecar bob]

At a garage, people often start a sentence with "ever since" you worked on my car, (we call them eversincer's) to which my answer is always, "so was it sometime since, or immediately since"?

[TheDemonLord]

At a garage, people often start a sentence with "ever since" you worked on my car, (we call them eversincer's) to which my answer is always, "so was it sometime since, or immediately since"?

It is the IT equivalent of Screen Resolution:

"Ever since you changed my Resolution, my HDD has been making funny noises"

[Woodman]

Dunedin City Ford rebuilt my V8 years ago and it lasted 500km.
Cam moved and pushed the cam chain against the cam cover putting ally through the rebuilt engine.

Took them to small claims and it turned out the work was done by their first year apprentice at full hourly rates.
They blamed the second failure on a worn oil pump and got away with it.

I remember when I took it there asking why there rate was higher than other shops.
"We are Ford and we know them inside out" was the answer I got.

Why didn't they replace/recon the oil pump in the first place?

And what Unstuck said.

[husaberg]

It is the IT equivalent of Screen Resolution:

"Ever since you changed my Resolution, my HDD has been making funny noises"

To which you immediately reply, have you tried rebooting your computer and do you switch it off every night.
Which buys you the time to google the answer. While you concentrate on a online game of pong

[neels]

I can understand the garage's reluctance to put time into replacing a cam belt and assorted attaching parts, only to find there is further engine damage and then have the ensuing argument with the customer over who pays the bill so far.

If the turbo was checked by a competent mechanic before fitting it seems unlikely that it suddenly reached end of life after another 1km of use, more likely there was some crap in the oil system when assembled which blocked the oil feed to the turbo, which without oil would probably last about that long before it shit itself.

Seems to me in this case it's on the garage for either poor workmanship installing the parts, or installing parts they shouldn't have if they were that close to failure. I'd certainly be arguing the point.